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Arborist tends Carroll’s trees
BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Most people don't know he exists, but Brian Adams can rattle off countless species of trees, enthusiastically describe the role of ladybugs as helpful insect predators — and do it all without taking a breath. As Westminster's municipal arborist, Adams is a doctor-detective who can examine a tree's canopy and cankers to diagnose if tent caterpillars or improper pruning are killing it. “After residents complain to City Hall and I show up, I'd say 98 percent of the time, people don't think the city had an arborist," he said. Adams isn't alone in the science of arboriculture. Thousands of licensed arborists work in Maryland, some for private companies and some for local governments, according to the Maryland Arborist Association, and most Baltimore-area counties have urban forestry experts.
Jefferson Airplane Gets You There on Time
Cranbury, NJ (OPENPRESS) March 5, 2007 -- As the plane heads full speed toward the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love, "Take Me To A Circus Tent" has opened a portal for those to revisit the original Summer of Love, preceding and subsequent years. Craig says he saw an opportunity to present the Jefferson Airplane in a new direction. The music is the star. The book contains 93 almost-never-in- print photos mostly furnished by Herb Greene (the photographer who shot the cover for the "Surrealistic Pillow" record) and Don Aters (the best friend of legendary promoter Chet Helms). The two rarest are from the early days. One image is pre-Jack Casady and Skip Spence; the other is signed by Paul Kantner as Paul Airplane. The result is a 543-page encyclopedia of information. "Take Me To A Circus Tent" for the first time accurately describes 121 live Airplane performances (1965-1972), the complete 1989 reunion, and the final flight to the Rock Hall of Fame (1996).
Suffering from Stella overload
The only word to describe the Stella McCartney hysteria at Target stores around the country on Monday morning is "embarrassing". Actually, make that two words: "seriously embarrassing". When I opened the papers on Tuesday and saw photographs of women in conniptions over mass-market clothes at a discount department store, I cringed. The photos gave me a instant dose of nausea far worse than the sinking feeling I had the night before watching news footage of thousands of women running for the racks, screaming like banshees and fighting like ice-charged addicts for garments in silk, taffeta and man-made fabrics. Ugh! One newspaper report detailed how women actually fought over the clothes, wrestling one another in tug-o-wars for a little piece of Stella. Some resorted to physical force in an effort to get their manicured mitts on a pair of skinny jeans or a tent top.
Stomp around with Bonepony
That's the catch phrase Nashville's Bonepony uses to describe what it does, and you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who has seen the band who didn't agree. The four-man band has been making people feel good inside for years, crisscrossing the nation, stopping in big cities and tiny towns to bring its unique brand of "stomp rock" to audiences with all the fervor of a traveling tent revival mixed with arena-rock spectacle. Bonepony performs Saturday night at Crossroads. "We play our hearts out," says Bonepony front man and founding member Scott Johnson. "I don't know any other way to play these songs." The band - Johnson, Nicolas Nguyen and Kenny Wright - tours year-round and has developed a large and devoted following. Bonepony has warmed the stage for acts such as Bob Seger, Santana and ZZ Top and played countless open-air festivals such as Farm Aid and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
Disrespect undermines protest
I had known about the Walk Out for quite some time now, seeing the campus littered with slips and fliers describing the event. While I do support anyone's right to associate and protest about anything, I have to say this walk-out was blatantly disrespectful and undermined the protester's argument.
Now I was not at the entire protest, as I prioritize class over protests. Yet, I was able to spot members from Tent State University at the protest. It is my understanding that Tent State wants to stop the War in Iraq and transfer the money to higher education. Yet doesn't this tactic of walking out of class prevent the dissemination of a quality education by faculty to students? I was personally disrupted at 1:30 p.m. when an individual got up, packed up their stuff and slammed the door as they left the room.
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